• Corpus ID: 195744545

MOTHER-TONGUE EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

@inproceedings{Foley2019MOTHERTONGUEEI,
  title={MOTHER-TONGUE EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA},
  author={Andrew Foley},
  year={2019}
}

• A. Foley
• Published 2019
• Education

The question of mother-tongue education in South Africa remains a vexed one. On the one hand, it seems reasonable and desirable that learners should be able to receive education in their mother tongue, if they so wish. On the other hand, there are some very real difficulties involved in the implementation of this ideal. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what these difficulties are, and then to suggest what needs to be done to overcome them. The intention is neither to argue for or against the notion of mother-tongue education in the South African context, nor to consider whether its implementation is practically possible, but simply to spell out what courses of action need to be undertaken if the idea is to be seriously pursued.